xx, 309 pages : 23 cm

Based on the final meeting of the Study Group on the World Political Map held as part of the 26th International Geographical Union Congress in Perth, Western Australia, in August 1988

Includes bibliographical references and index

From conflict to harmony in border landscapes / Julian V. Minghi -- Geographical investigations in boundary areas of the Basle region ('Regio') / Werner A. Gallusser -- Boundary, values and identity : the Swiss-Italian transborder region / Walter Leimgruber -- Some developing and current problems of the eastern border landscape of the Federal Republic of Germany : the Bavarian example / Ulrich Ante -- Geographic problems of frontier regions : the case of the Italo-Yugoslav border landscape / Vladimir Klemencic and Milan Bufon -- The impact of sovereignty transfer on the settlement pattern of Sakhalin Island / Shinsuke Minamide -- Society, state and peripherality : the case of the Thai-Malaysian border landscape / Dennis Rumley -- The Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border landscape / Ronald J. May -- Coastal islands on an international boundary : Dauan and Parama in the Torres Strait / George Ohshima

Inter- and intra-regional conflicts in Pakistan's border landscape / Mohammed Ismail Siddiqi -- The Gulf of Aqaba coastline : an evolving border landscape / Alasdair Drysdale -- The evolution and contemporary significance of the Bophuthatswana-Botswana border landscape / James Drummond and Andrew H. Manson -- Where the Colorado flows into Mexico / John E. Chappell, Jr. -- Peacekeeping missions and landscapes / Stanley D. Brunn

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